Why's everything got to be an argument ffs? In other words, Dave means that "Woman" is a potential roadblock distraction, and "politics in its narrow definition" is also a potential roadblock distraction. That's exactly what I meant Kelly, except there was additional context i.e. the rest of what wa...

Yep, as I said at the time, Stefan would be an interesting guest, given the right subject. Having watched his Philosophy 101 podcasts and many others of a philosophical bent, I know this guy is a truth lover and a man of his own logical convictions and integrity - far more in line with many of the p...

Death metal is pretty impressive live, but it is still a depraved art-form nonetheless. Opeth excluded, of course. Hehe yep, the mosh pits at Opeth gigs are a most edifying and sagely affair. Alex, I must say I'm reading more of your posts than ever these days - the really short ones, sometimes.

The causal nature of will does not make it illusory. Well, if we're talking about the truthful understanding of will and its relationship to causal nature, your quite right. However, if you're talking about the common understanding of these concepts and their ramifications, you're quite wrong. I ta...

DT: Speaking philosophically, the truth of the matter is the more appropriate. And the truth of the matter is that human will and universal will are identical. dejavu: No, the truth of the matter is we know no universal will, only our own. The will that 'we' commonly know as our own is an illusion....

From OneLookDictionary : "Will - noun: the capability of conscious choice and decision and intention" Am I missing something here? Human will and universal will are exactly as free (capable of conscious choice, decision and intention) as eachother, i.e. not free, or figuratively speaking only. A di...

And there we have it, it's a simple answer. No, she cannot be chronologically older. Although that wasn't really the question. Anyone who's been here long enough should know Foresta's history and not bearing this in mind would suggest a serious lack of compassion. Foresta, physical age, mental age a...

Michael "Doesn't understand basic linguistic conventions" Mooney So now its down to the most trivial possible level of debate... (one of the most, anyway) "linguistic conventions." I could probably discover what you are referring to (or should that be "to what you are referring?") if I reviewed my ...

mikiel had a little lambast on the screen as white as snow And oft' times when mikiel posted That lambast was sure to flow Saviour of cosmology supernatural epistemology gifted seer Cult leader delusion feeder glory beer IQ brags can't use tags glory meer Given to lambast riven with bombast Fear? N...

If I need a map to guide me to a particular place, then I need one that has clear, unambigiuous, black-and-white, accurate instructions. I have no use for a fuzzy map that points vaguely in all directions. Yesterday I received an email invitation from an academic to participate in a survey about at...

No doubt. There is, seemingly, no worldy way to escape death you see. Ram, you're doing it agaaain mate. Have you never come across an inveterate bullshitter before or something? I realise this one is quite exquisite but what's with the morbid fascination? Who is more of a fool: a fool or the one wh...

This has gone on for far too long now. Any hope of deriving the syllogisms fundamental to what's being said of them has long been lost to over-elaboration. And now it seems, perhaps, that the conclusions and their corollories are getting too greedy for any syllogisms previously put forward. If we ar...

Asia's angry monk syndrome By Megawati Wijaya SINGAPORE - From Sri Lanka to South Korea, from Tibet to Myanmar, Asia's Buddhist clergy are in unprecedented numbers exerting their moral authority onto politics, abandoning their detachment from worldly events and giving rise to what at least one acade...

Do you think that all these seemingly unbelievable and out-of-this-world experiences you've had are best explained by your perception at the time being faulty due to paranoid/schizophrenic episode(s) or by them actually being real?